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Colonel Jack Davis, a former White House military attache forced to retire by the incoming president, gathers a group of Vietnam veterans to carry out his plan to assassinate liberal congressmen until the president meets the Colonel's monetary demands
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The pseudonymous author calls this "a novel of satire," but it approaches slapstick, most of it a sloppy, foul-mouthed attack on Bill Clinton. Retired Army Col. Jack Davis, aided by some old comrades in arms, cooks up a plan to kill bad (liberal) guys until the federal government pays $50 million in ransom. The brave band massacres a U.S. Senator, her husband and aides, as well as two gay members of the military. Emboldened, they go on to kill gun-control advocates, a liberal Congressman and--a big target--a media cabal just as it's assigning "news broadcasters to Republican candidates" to "willfully and deceitfully broadcast false information." Unreality rules from the start. The murdered senator is a California Democrat, for example, so politically literate readers will wonder why she would only see gay activists in a "private and secret meeting." Other readers may wonder why another seasoned Senator would make love to his secretary in an office fully visible from the hotel across the street. The language tries for vitriol: Clinton is "white trash," and the media are "snakes... their tongues flapping as they slithered along," but the effect is all empty bravado. Erickson's charmless language carries all the firepower of a popgun, but at least we get a new epithet from the fringe: "centralists" who "don't give a shit if they wreck the country."
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- PublisherSligo Pr
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0965121372
- ISBN 13 9780965121378
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages168
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. Volume itself has dark blue covers with sharp silver lettering on the spine. 168 pages, interior and exterior are clean and binding is tight. Just a very light touch of wear at the head & tail of the spine. The rear dust flap of the dust jacket has a crease over its the entire length and the front dust flap has a crease of approximately 4 1/2". The dust jacket has been placed in an archival quality Brodart cover and now looks quite nice. A satire that has serious implications for the United States of America. A quite nice copy; available for immediate shipment, carefully packed in a sturdy box. Seller Inventory # 0009577
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